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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] [AArch64] MTE corefile support
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> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:20:40 +0100
> NoDisclaimer: true
> From: Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index 760cb2b7abc..885b3929d84 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
>  
>  *** Changes since GDB 12
>  
> +* GDB now supports dumping memory tag data for AArch64 MTE.  It also supports
> +  reading memory tag data for AArch64 MTE from core files generated by
> +  the gcore command or the Linux kernel.
> +

I think this should say something about the significance of this
feature.  Otherwise it is completely unclear why would GDB want to
support that.

Same comment for the addition to the manual.

Thanks.